Help identifying Northwestern, 2 inch gumball machine

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Don't know a lot about gumball machines. Actually, I know nothing 😂
Looking for some help identifying this northwestern 2 inch gumball machine.
I know it's not a super 80, thought it was a Folz, kinda similar appears to have the same coin box.
Any ideas.
Thanks
 

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It's not a Model 60 or Super 80. I think it's a Folz as you stated.

Northwestern used to be in my home town, but they sold out to a company in Colorado who makes parts for the legacy machines.

The Folz was typically a 2 cent machine - I think someone updated it to a quarter. That's what threw me off, not that I'm an expert.
 
Yep, the key to calling it a Folz is the coin box. For most of these, you have to remove the globe, then the base to get to the coins.

I have a Model 60 I use to dispense M&Ms. I love it.

I had a chance to buy them at the school auction in Morris - they'd donate one every year. And I'd get outbid every time.

I was driving to town to visit a doctor, and I heard on the WCSJ radio station "swap shop" that someone had a garage sale, and was selling one. I looked at my margin, and went straight to the garage sale - nabbed it 1 minute before someone else was about to get it too! He tried to buy it off me as I was walking to my car.

The best part - this one came with the chrome stand.

The guy who tried to buy it off me confessed he went to the company when they closed, and was buying older machines from their inventory for $5 a machine, stuff from the 1920's, 1930's, and up. My head just about exploded. If I had known, I'd have been on that so fast it would have pissed my wife off.

"You bought WHAT?"
 
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